California's Yuba City is in Sutter County, adjacent to the Buttes in the Sacramento Valley. Its "twin city" Marysville is just across the Feather River, in Yuba County. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts’ 2014 Artist of the Year exhibition. (photo by…

A wry homage to the Wacky Packages once sold at Wilbur's convenience store. The stench of Del Monte's peach cannery was once a seasonal fixture in Yuba City. That cannery is gone and Pittsburgh is now home to the corporation's eastern HQ. Pittsburgh…

About Marysville's Bomb Day tradition, with closeups of local and imported explosives (hand crafted and detonated with permission from the local fire department). Pittsburgh Center for the Arts’ 2014 Artist of the Year exhibition. (photo by Tom Lit…

A myth-busting quotation about race relations in California from the excellent "Marysville's Chinatown," by Lawrence Tom. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts’ 2014 Artist of the Year exhibition. (photo by Tom Little)

"Ishi" is the Yana word for "grown man," and is how the last of the Deer Creek Indians came to be called by whites, though it was not his given name. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts’ 2014 Artist of the Year exhibition. (photo by Tom Little)

Two convenience stores, a block apart, each retaining a unique character over many decades. And a fenced in slough: once a defacto greenspace for neighborhood children and illegal dumping. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts’ 2014 Artist of the Year exh…

Something of a temple entrance. Beyond the curtain is a video mashup of contemporary and historic footage of Marysville's Bok Kai temple, Yuba City's Nagar Kirtan, its Highway Chickens, and its links to the Oklahoma Dust Bowl and other man made envir…

A diminutive tribute to Pittsburgh native Mel Bochner's "Measurements" (R), and enlargements of news clippings (L) from 1985, the year Rand McNally selected Pittsburgh, PA as "America's Most Livable City," while the artist's home town came in dead la…